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From the sun there grew a beautiful flower that had the magic ability to heal people. An evil woman found the flower and hid it from the rest of the world for her own selfish desires. Every time she would sing a certain song to the flower it would make her young again. Over and over again for hundreds of years she would reverse time to make herself young and beautiful. In a kingdom not far away from the evil woman and her magical plant, there was a king and queen. The queen was about to bear a child and became deathly ill. So the kingdom went out in search to find the magic flower. When they found it they took it back to the queen and she was cured. She then birthed a little girl with beautiful long blonde hair. Her hair contained the same special abilities the flower did. They named her Rapunzel. The evil woman was outraged. She went out to search for the new born princess with the long magical blonde hair. When she found her it was in the middle of the night and the infant was sleeping in her crib. In her fury, she snatched the princess up and scurried off into the night. She then locked her away in a tall tower deep in the woods where no one could ever find her. For the next eighteen years Rapunzel and the woman she thinks is her mother live. All of Rapunzel’s life her “mother” instills into her that she is never to leave the tower. “The world is a bad place,” her mother would tell her. But, when she encounters another human for the first time ever, he started talking about the world and how amazing it is. She wondered how something can be amazing like the guy had described, and awful like her mother told her. She was confused and wanted to find out for herself. When the opportunity arose to sneak out of the castle with the stranger, she took it. Rapunzel knew how dangerous it would be and that there would be consequences for her actions. So why did she do it? Why did the man have a different opinion about the world

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